Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leader of this reaction is Dr. Charles Anderson Aldrich of Northwestern University Medical School, a modest, kindly man who turned to pediatrics after his three children broke all the textbook rules. In Boston last week, he aired his fatherly ideas at the eleventh annual convention of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Bits of Aldrich wisdom...
...Vagabond sucked on his unlit pipe and began to wonder. The author of the text he had just put aside had a great deal of information about the Middle Ages, undoubtedly remarkable, and perhaps even useful, but could that author transform his dry, textbook style into such sonorous periods and ringing phrases as were went to keep even the drowsiest Freshman from nodding at nine o'clock in the morning? And even if his author could deliver such a lecture, thought Vag, could he hold to the measured pace of his biweekly oration through a series of shrill bursts from...
...Library Committee supervises the Textbook Loan Library and a social service library in P.B.H. and organizes the semi-annual old clothes drives. The Foreign Students Committee acts as host to the one hundred and fifty foreign students in the University, with headquarters in the International House...
...Copenhagen a newsdealer displayed a textbook, English in 50 Hours, under a poster saying: LEARN ENGLISH BEFORE THE TOMMIES ARRIVE. Nazi occupation authorities made him take down book and poster. Next day the newsdealer displayed a new book, German in 50 Hours, under a new sign: LEARN GERMAN BEFORE OUR FRIENDS THE GERMANS DEPART...
American Legion Commander Milo J. Warner: "We [admonish] . . . textbook authors not to regard it as their province to use the schoolroom as a sounding board whereon the glories of the collectivist society shall be preached...